0 present participle of discharge
1 to allow someone officially to leave somewhere, especially a hospital or a law court:
Patients were discharged from the hospital because the beds were needed by other people.
More than half of all prisoners discharged are reconvicted within two years.
UK A peace protester was conditionally discharged for twelve months (= allowed to go free only if they do not commit a crime again for this period of time).
3 to perform a task, especially an official one:
If some course of action is an unavoidable means to discharging a given obligation, then pursuing that course of action is likewise obligatory.
Several vacuoles are discharging their contents into the medium in the central cavity of the worm (small arrowheads).
These probably reflected the charging and discharging of the large membrane capacitance of these cells which could not be completely compensated for.
This confluence further undermines the compensation's fully discharging moral accountability for the harm.
Identifying barriers to improving the process of discharging patients from hospital an approach for others seeking to employ more effective means of implementation.
Earlier onset did not result in earlier discharge from the hospital, though investigators were discouraged from discharging patients early in the current study.
This leaves most of the work to be done in discharging the proof obligations for the refinement steps, for which they provide little guidance.
These calcium-free conditions were employed to minimize the risk of discharging the hcp-aequorin during the microinjection process.
